A note from JC: First off, I want to say congrats to one of my best friends, Raine, on the release of her first published story! Raine is passionate about writing and pours her heart and soul into her stories. But she doesn't stop there. She wants other authors to feel their stories are awesome and she is the best cheerleader I've ever had. She has taught me so much about helping others and giving encouragement. For that, I am forever in her debt. So help in me in welcoming her to the blog on her release day! Take it away, Raine...
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The
Best Day of My Life
Warning:
this post contains more exclamation points than anyone should consume in a
lifetime! (It exceeds the Marketing standard at least.) You’ll have to forgive
me because…
*~*~*Today
is the best day of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*~*~*
(TWENTY exclamation points—one for each year spent dreaming!)
(TWENTY exclamation points—one for each year spent dreaming!)
While I am prone to wild and outlandish exaggeration
about EVERYTHING IN THE GALAXY (see what I did there?): NOT TODAY. *Today* is
my release day. It’s my very first release day ever, actually. Twenty years
I’ve spent dreaming about this moment: the day I’d become a published author. I
want to go back in time and sit down next to my third-grade self who was
writing a totally kick-ass story about best friend female PIs and their
adventures and say, “‘Sup? You keep on pluggin’ away, Red. It’s going to
happen.” (I probably won’t tell her that she’s going to ditch the PIs in
favorite of delicious gentlemen touching each other inappropriately. Why ruin
the surprise?)
The thing about today? It’s not actually unique—a
million other amazing authors have already experienced it! Some are
experiencing right now. Some will tomorrow! Or next week! Or ten years from now!
But instead of feeling like my best day ever is somehow diminished because of
it having been repeated many times for many people, I actually feel like it’s
heightened! I’ve stepped into a community of AWESOME!! I’m surrounded by
creativity and word-power and people who know what this feels like. Or people
who want to know! I’m on my bestie’s blog today, guys, floating in a blissful
cloud of wordgasm and twenty-year-old dreams that somehow didn’t go stale.
Twinkie dreams? And JC gets it,
because he’s had this day, and he will again! (You rock, dood.)
THANK YOU SO MUCH for being here, thank you for
reading this, and thank you for fighting for your own dreams! I hope today is
your best day ever, too!!!
(Thank you, JC, for having me on your blog! Love
your face.)
Under
the Table and Into His Heart by Raine O'Tierney
Blurb
At the Under the Table host club, Valentine’s Day
means one thing: cash. Neglected housewives, newly ex-girlfriends, and lovelorn
thirtysomethings pay for the attention of handsome men. Shy bartender Jem has
always wanted to be a host, and when the club’s owner, Miss Rye, accepts a
contract from a MensLove Convention, Jem volunteers to flirt and make out with
another host for the ladies’ entertainment. Bailey, an older man who’s had his
eye on Jem, convinces Miss Rye to let him be Jem’s partner, and everyone gets
more than they expected—especially Jem and Bailey.
Excerpt
“Do you like the
Kirkpatrick Connection?” Bailey asked, drumming his fingers on the steering
wheel in time. Then, as if he’d said something offensive, he changed
tack. “Dumb question. You probably
weren’t even born yet when the band was still together.”
“Doesn’t mean I don’t like them,” Jem said with a smile. “I prefer the songs Bobby South wrote to Scotty’s.”
“Okay, you’re just
turning me on now.”
Jem flushed, pleased.
“If you’re just tuning
in, kiddos, we’re in the last hour of our ‘So you forgot ladies probably need
to be taken to dinner if you want to get laid on Valentine’s Day’ contest.
We’ve been giving away dates all day to idiots who forgot to make any plan
whatsoever.”
Bailey chuckled. Eyes
still on the road, he reached down and fiddled with the dials on his dash
radio, turning the volume up and setting the needle so the station came in a
bit more clearly.
“If you’ve been trying
all day and couldn’t get through, then you’ve already heard our rules three
hundred times. If not, listen up: we run an hour of songs, and then you
challenge Sunshine—that’s me if you don’t know (and if you don’t know, why are
you listening?)—to a trivia-off about the band of the hour. This hour’s band,
obviously, is the Kirkpatrick Connection. Think you know more than I do? Call
in; we’ll go head-to-head with some randomized trivia my minions cooked up. Am
I cheating? Have I already looked at the answers on Wikipedia? Well, that’s the
risk you run when you step up to Sunshine Duncan. Why haven’t you started
dialing yet?”
“You should call,”
Bailey said as he merged onto the highway.
“Really?”
“Oh yeah,” Bailey
teased. “Hotshot kid thinks he’s a real fan. I think he’s just trying to impress
the old man.”
“You’re not that much
older than I am, Bailey.”
“Well, you’re a heck
of a lot younger than I am, Jem.” After a heartbeat’s pause, Bailey continued.
“Doesn’t mean I don’t want you, though. So you going to prove yourself a fan or
what?”
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Bio: Raine is an always-writing, boundlessly enthusiastic, exclamation point addict! (!!!) She is known for declaring every day “the best day EVER!” and every thing her “all-time FAVORITE!” Despite this (obnoxious?) exuberance, she still somehow manages to have a wonderfully encouraging husband, Siôn, (who also writes M/M rom!) and an amazing group of friends and colleagues who continue to support (read: put up with) her. Raine spends her days working as a library lady, fighting the good fight for intellectual freedom.
Website
and social media links
Website: http://raineotierney.com/
E-mail: Raineotierney@gmail.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/RaineOTierneyAuthor
Twitter: @RaineOTierney
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/RaineOTierney
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